Afridi Laskar And ORS v. State Of West Bengal

25.02.2022 Ct. No. 29 KAUSHIK Allowed C.R.M. (A) 945 of 2022 In Re:- An application for anticipatory bail under Section 438 of the Code of Criminal Procedure in connection with Duttapukur Police Station Case No. 644 of 2020 dated 05.09.2020 under Sections 363/365 of the Indian Penal Code, 1860 and adding Section 376 of the Indian Penal Code, 1860, Section 6 of the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act, 2012 and Section 9 of Prohibition of Child Marriage Act, 2006.

And In Re : Afridi Laskar & Ors.

...... petitioners Mr. M. H. Chowdhury Mr. M. Alam .....for the petitioners Md. Anwar Hossain Ms. Ratna Ghosh ....for the State Considering the fact that the principal accused claimed marriage and on such basis obtained an order of anticipatory bail on February 8, 2022 in CRM (A) 578 of 2022 and considering the involvement of the petitioners in the incident, we grant anticipatory bail to the petitioners. Accordingly, we direct that in the event of arrest the petitioners shall be released on bail upon furnishing a bond of Rs.10,000/- each, with two sureties of like amount each, to the satisfaction of the arresting officer and also be subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 438(2) of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 and on further condition that the

petitioners shall meet the Investigating Officer once a month till the conclusion of the investigation and on condition that the petitioners shall appear before the jurisdictional court on every date fixed and pray for regular bail within a period of four weeks from date.

This application for anticipatory bail is, thus, allowed.

(Debangsu Basak, J.) (Bibhas Ranjan De, J.)